Demo Review: Mirrors Edge

Mirrors Edge
Good/Bad: GOOD
Although short the Mirrors Edge leaves you wanting more. The combat and some of the more specific moves can be a bit hard to master, you can see that there's a ton of room for the game to let you move around a bit. I think 10-20 years from now Mirrors Edge will be referred to as a Concept Game for First Person Shooters, sort of like Dark Side of The Moon for Rock, in line with Portal and Doom. The basic idea is that you can jump from rooftop to rooftop, trying to escape police in a big brother dystopia. The game has a sort of Matrix feel to it. Think about it, your trying to escape police by jumping long distances in a dystopian world, disarming enemies with martial arts-like moves, with gun play, in a city, and heck there's even "bullet-time". If you were a fan of the matrix you will like this game. Hell I wouldn't mind if this game were called the Matrix.

Anyway like I said at the start I can't really get into the plot because the demo was pretty short and also like I said it left me wanting more. Eventually I will buy this game (After Fable 2, Fallout 3, Rock Band 2 and Gears of War 2), or at least rent it.

Don Cherry game?

Why does Don Cherry not have his own game brand? Look at it this way, NFL has the Madden series, why doesn't the NHL have a Don Cherry series? 2K? EA? Anybody?! He's coached, played and is a tv commentator for hockey. I'd bet that if Don was fired from Hockey Night in Canada, the CBC hq would be burned down the next day. HE WAS VOTED 7th in the Greatest Canadian Series FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! If a Canadian hockey fan is in a game store and see two games. 1 is NHL 2009. The 2nd is Don Cherry presents: NHL 2009, which do you think he's going to buy?

HO-LY SHIT.

Wow. This is... astonishing. Well I took back 2K6 two days ago. But while at a different EB Games, I spotted 2k7 for only $5! That's cheaper than 2k6! I buy it and bring it home and like before I'm having a ball (puck actually)! Of course I get into Season again and play a couple games. Then suddenly, without warning, at the end of my Flames game, the game freezes. I play the game all over again. The same. Now, this isn't the same bug as 2K6, because all it did was
2K.
2K..
2K...
2K
2K.
etc.

In 2K7 instead it says "Would you like to save your profile?" Now know this, profiles aren't seasons. So saving your profile doesn't do SHIT! It doesn't matter if you choose yes or no. It still freezes! The whole console this time too.
Allow me to quote myself-
"Don't worry, just spend ANOTHER $80 on 2k7 which we obviously won't support and may or may not work!" Or you could go out and buy EA's NHL game."
Guess what! IT DOESN'T FUCKING WORK AND THEY DIDN'T FUCKING SUPPORT IT! UNFUCKINGBELIEVABLE!
Imagine if you will for a minute, how 2K must have discussed this game in a board room meeting.
Lead guy: Hey let's make 2K7 the same as 2K6!
Others: Great idea the game was fun!
Lead guy: Hey I have a shitty idea!
Others: What?
Lead guy: Let's not fix the bug from last year.
Others: Hmmm...
Lead guy: In fact! Let's make it worse!
Others: How can we make it worse? It prevented you from playing 2K6.
Lead guy: Now we can make it so people's console freeze completely!
Others: Why would we do that sir?
Lead guy: 'Cause we would be shitting on the fans that already bought the game and 2k6 you little shit!
Oh and to quote myself again "Go f**k yourself 2k."

Outrageous!

It's unbelieveable! This weekend I bought a game for $10. 2K Sports' NHL 2K6. As I play it, I bask in a certain glow. This is my first hockey game since EA's NHL '98 for the PS1, so it's been awhile, yet I'm having a blast. There's a goalie control which is so much fun, there awesome passing controls, awesome presentation, tons and tons of stuff to do! Just one problem though. THE GAME DOESN'T F**KING WORK!

So after I learn the shit, then play a practice game, I dive right into the Season mode. I set up my team (the Blue Jackets) and face off against the Washington Captials. I win, and then I go to Exit the match and continue play and... STOP! The game doesn't freeze it just stops on the loading screen. So I reset and play again. Of course since I couldn't save my season, I have to set my lines up ALL OVER AGAIN! I win, freeze, I win, freeze, I win, freeze, I win, freeze! I'm thinking WHAT THE F**K! The consoles fine. The game isn't frozen as I can see the dots moving along. What a pile of bullshit. At first I thought, "hey it's a used game, what do you expect?" but no, I suspected something deeper. I check online, "NHL 2k6 problem", sure enough, this rabbit hole goes deep. Christ there's even a note on it's wikipedia f**king page! Board posts up to 30 pages long of people having the same problem.

Now let me explain something to you. If a game developer f**ks up, it's their goddamned duty to fix it. Here's some examples:

• Ubisoft noticed Silent Hunter had some bugs and release a patch post haste
• Bungie released the Halo 3 beta about 7-8 hours late, so they gave their fans an extra 3 days with the beta
• Hell, when Xbox Live was f'ed up over Christmas Microsoft gave EVERYONE a free game.
• CHRIST when Gamespot gave some lame f**king truck racing game a 1/10, the makers of that game even released a patch
• JESUS! EVERYONE RELEASES PATCHES! EVEN IF THE GAME IS GODDAMNED PERFECT!

So what does 2k Sports do? "You need to reformat your harddrive." Which is slang for "ERASE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE ON YOUR 360!"

Why not just shit on peoples faces? Seriously this isn't a movie. If your in a movie and and the projector catches fire, you say "we'll there's 10 dollars down the tube" Some people payed between $60-$80 for this game! Seriously 2k what are you THINKING!? Taketwo (owner of 2k) Was close to being bought out by EA. You want to guess what NHL 2k6's competition is? EA SPORTS' NHL GAME! What a way to shit on your fanbase. Basically what they said was:

"Don't worry, just spend ANOTHER $80 on 2k7 which we obviously won't support and may or may not work!" Or you could go out and buy EA's NHL game. Thank god that it only cost me 10 bucks and I'm going to return it for another game tomorrow. Go f**k yourself 2k.